Actor Michael Rooker stood in his hotel suite's bathroom staring at a coffee cup with the concentration of a jeweler inspecting a diamond.
"You want to know how I act?" he asked in his trademark deep growl before holding the cup under a running faucet....

"Guardians of the Galaxy" isn't just performing well for Disney at the box office. The company is seeing strong interest in the film and its cast of misfits on the small screen, as well -- especially for its videogame "Disney Infinity."
Since becoming...

Kevin Spacey, who is a pro at playing slithery characters, could be making his first villainous turn in a video game, namely Activision's blockbuster "Call of Duty" franchise.
A short audio clip made the rounds online this week, in which Spacey can be clearly heard saying, "And you think you can just march into these countries based on some fundamentalist religious principles, drop a few bombs, topple a dictator and start a democracy? Give me a break."
Listen to the clip here:
He doesn't have the...

Hard as it is to believe, within the memory of those still living, Marvel was not always the movie establishment's billion-dollar behemoth but a scrappy, iconoclastic comic book gadfly. So one of the most pleasant surprises of the altogether pleasant and surprising "Guardians of the Galaxy" is that it takes us back to Marvel's roots and the subversive satisfactions those early days provided.
Yes, "Guardians" cost a reported $170 million, but no one was obsessing about screwing up the franchise here,...

Bradley Cooper supplies only his voice to "Guardians of the Galaxy," but the actor will visit "Jimmy Kimmel Live" to help promote the new superhero movie.
Cooper, Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista and Vin Diesel (he gives a voice performance, too) stop by Kimmel's show on Monday.
"Jimmy Kimmel Live" airs at 11:35 p.m. on ABC (WFTV-Channel 9 locally).
The film's release is set for Aug. 1, although screenings start the night before.
Cooper supplies the voice or Rocket Raccoon, and preview...

Michael Rooker Photos

In one of the more clever film promotions from a studio, Marvel has launched Galaxy Getaways online as a travel agency that introduces otherworldly destinations that will be featured in "Guardians of the Galaxy."
The site so far features three destinations -- Xandar, Morag and Knowhere -- with images, Google street views of the planet's streets, and even recommendations of where to eat. Gluborg's, for example, is the first eatery in the galaxy to receive five stars.
The starships (see above) feature...

"It's like Comic-Con meets a Bar-Mitzvah" said host Jeff Ross as the Saturn Awards began Thursday night. He might be onto something. Surely there were plenty of genre faves at the Castaway in Burbank to excite the fanboys and auotgraph seekers outside, whose plaintive cries of "Ernie!" went mostly unheeded by Ghostbuster Ernie Hudson.
Among the actors at the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films' annual bash: Malcolm McDowell; Chloe Grace Moretz (winner in the Performance by a Younger...

To promote its "Guardians of the Galaxy" -- and help educate moviegoers on who its band of otherworldly misfits are -- Marvel Studios will screen 17 minutes of "Guardians of the Galaxy" in select Imax theaters on July 7.
The first look will take place in 150 Imax locations across North America at 7 p.m. The film, directed by James Gunn, opens Aug. 1.
"We've re-mastered some of our epic sequences into the Imax 3D format, taking the scope and scale to new heights while creating a truly immersive,...